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Aparna Mathur, Matthew H. Jensen | Tracking the unreported (15.6%) unemployed January 06, 2012 In case you missed it, AEI economist Aparna Mathur and economic researcher Matt Jensen find that: The official US unemployment rate hovers around 8.6 percent (8.5 % as of today), but a better measure of the real jobless rate is called the “U-6” which stands at 15.6 percent (15.2 percent as of today). The U-6 rate includes those that would still like a job and have looked for work in the last twelve months, not just the last four weeks. That means the number of Americans...

When Valerie Jarrett was still in contention for the Senate seat in early November 2008, Rahm Emanuel called longtime Rod Blagojevich friend John Wyma. Emanuel wanted Wyma to deliver a message to Blagojevich. Wyma, a state lobbyist, just testified that Emanuel told him to call Blagojevich and express something on behalf of the President-Elect. "He said the President-Elect would value and appreciate Valerie Jarrett in the Senate seat," Wyma said. Wyma said he then tried to call Blagojevich at home but "missed him." He then called Blagojevich chief of staff John Harris. Wyma said he passed on Emanuel's message. "I...

A Manhattan grand jury voted Tuesday not to charge a Muslim jail chaplain with trying to sneak razors into a city jail, his defense lawyer said. An ex-con who served time for a 1976 murder, Zulqarnain Abdu-Shahid told a grand jury that he'd forgotten the potential weapons were in his duffel bag, his lawyer said. Abdu-Shahid, 58, was busted when a metal detector revealed he had straight razors and scissors in his bag as he reported to work at the Manhattan Detention Complex last week. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/02/10/2010-02-10_jail_chaplain_not_charged.html#ixzz0fAHsJl47

Keeping an eye on the real terrorists (that would be you).